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ArticleSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2016

Exercise-Based Fall Prevention in the Elderly: What About Agility?

Lars Donath, Jaap van Dieën, Oliver Faude

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Article in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06457308 (Tainan Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan), which is not on this map. Cited by 44 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT06457308 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2021, after this paper: background citation

Tainan Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan

TypeinterventionalSponsorTainan Hospital, Ministry of Health and WelfareRan2021 to 2022Enrolled51ConditionsPostmenopausal Osteoporosis, Agility Exercise, Physical Function, Balance StabilityArmsPhysical training of agility, Physical training of resistance
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

44 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 82 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Stretching and Multicomponent Training to Functional Capacities of Older Women: A Randomized Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  19. Hip Strength, Change of Direction, and Falls in Recreational Pickleball Players.International journal of sports physical therapy · 2024
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  20. Neuromuscular Mechanisms of Motor Adaptation to Repeated Treadmill-Slip Perturbations During Stance in Healthy Young Adults.IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Lars DonathDepartment of Sport, Exercise and Health, University of Basel, Birsstrasse 320 B, 4052, Basel, Switzerland. lars.donath@unibas.ch.
Jaap van DieënMOVE Research Institute Amsterdam, Faculty of Human Movement Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Oliver FaudeDepartment of Sport, Exercise and Health, University of Basel, Birsstrasse 320 B, 4052, Basel, Switzerland.
University of Basel · CHVrije Universiteit Amsterdam · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Annually, one in three seniors aged over 65 years fall. Balance and strength training can reduce neuromuscular fall risk factors and fall rates. Besides conventional balance and strength training, explosive or high-velocity strength training, eccentric exercises, perturbation-based balance training, trunk strength, and trunk control have also been emphasized. In contrast, aerobic exercise has to date not been included in fall-prevention studies. However, well-developed endurance capacity might attenuate fatigue-induced declines in postural control in sports-related or general activities of daily living. Physical performance indices, such as balance, strength, and endurance, are generally addressed independently in exercise guidelines. This approach seems time consuming and may impede integrative training of sensorimotor, neuromuscular, and cardiocirculatory functions required to deal with balance-threatening situations in the elderly. An agility-based conceptual training framework comprising perception and decision making (e.g., visual scanning, pattern recognition, anticipation) and changes of direction (e.g., sudden starts, stops and turns; reactive control; concentric and eccentric contractions) might enable an integrative neuromuscular, cardiocirculatory, and cognitive training. The present paper aims to provide a scientific sketch of how to build such an integrated modular training approach, allowing adaptation of intensity, complexity, and cognitive challenge of the agility tasks to the participant's capacity. Subsequent research should address the (1) link between agility and fall risk factors as well as fall rates, (2) benefit-risk ratios of the proposed approach, (3) psychosocial aspects of agility training (e.g., motivation), and (4) logistical requirements (e.g., equipment needed).

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Postural BalanceAccidental FallsAgedAgingExercise TherapyHumansMeta-Analysis as TopicPhysical Conditioning, HumanResistance TrainingRisk Factors

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PMID26395115
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